Shares in Facebook rose more than 10 per cent on the opening minutes of its
stockmarket debut today, as eager investors snapped up the first
publicly-traded shares for the social networking company.

Facebook’s stock opened at around $42, up from its offer price of $38 a share.
At that figure, the company is worth close to $115 billion. The share price
is now fluctuating between $40 and $42 a share.

In the first five minutes of trading, 100 million shares were traded as the
frenzy for Facebook stock began among investors. There was some frustration
as trading was delayed for